Alcohol Freedom Blog

You may have been drinking for years and the cumulative effect of the alcohol and your actions has taken a toll on your health and your general existence.

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As awful as an alcoholic’s life can become during the drinking days, there are times when in recovery an alcoholic will remember when things were pretty good – and this can lead to problems. Remembering when times weren’t so bad when drinking can certainly take you down memory lane – like having a few beers on a hot summer day after mowing the lawn while listening to a ball game.  An enjoyable experience at the time and if you weren’t an alcoholic this would be much more than a memory.

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“I cried to the Lord and He answered by setting me free” PSALMS 118:5

Alcoholism is such a destabilizing illness that can remove one from their life’s direction in a very short time. Heavy drinking leading to loss of family, livelihood, position in your community and your health can leave you exhausted and morally depleted. With their backs firmly against the wall and facing a frightful future, most alcoholics will turn to their Higher Power for the strength they need to make the difficult decisions. Continue Reading »

Picture this scenario. The CFO of a fortune 500 company is sighted at a business function over-indulging in alcohol to the point where he/she becomes loud and overt in his/her conversations. Other executives take notice of this behavior and make a note to speak to Human Resources about this potential problem with alcohol and the ramifications of confronting the employee about any impending issues to this looming predicament. Continue Reading »

When you reach the point in your recovery where you dare step out and once again experience life, you should not forget to give yourself the encouragement you require to continue moving forward. Sometimes early in recovery we are so caught up in avoiding alcohol and that which makes us drink that we forget that we’ve done a pretty good job to get to this point in our sobriety.
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When you are ready, truly prepared in your own mind to stop or reform your drinking behavior there is hope in treatment. Specifically, help is available for treating you physically, psychologically and spiritually. All three play an instrumental role in halting a slide into alcoholism which can be costly both in relationships and financial devastation as well as being potentially life threatening. Continue Reading »

The Early Days Of Recovery

The voice in your head says “wouldn’t it be great to have a beer when it’s so hot outside? You know how much you like the smell and taste of a freshly cracked open beer…”; the voice can be relentless…”you know you usually have a couple drinks of scotch when you relax at night on the patio…”. And so it goes, the mind games of early recovery and that incessant voice reminding you how great it was/is to drink. Continue Reading »

How does an alcoholic identify when he or she needs to adjust their way of thinking to be more receptive to a quality recovery?

What are the obvious signs of ego and how can they be overcome?

Everyone has an ego and some even need it to be successful, it is an integral part of who they are and what they do. To an alcoholic, an over inflated view of themselves is dangerous. Continue Reading »

Bolte-Taylor’s horrifying yet exhilarating experience has convinced her that we all have the ability to access our right brain and the astonishing consciousness that exists and is waiting for us to tap into. We all have energy around us that is dictated by our right brain. We must find a way to make our right brain function or this creative energy source that is with us always, be the more dominant brain activity. To let ourselves go and explore the energy source that’s always available to us. Continue Reading »

During their recovery one of the most difficult yet necessary things an alcoholic must do is willingly give up their ego. When an alcoholic admits defeat and loses the attitude their ego has nurtured, they will be humbled and become open and willing to change. In order to do this they must capitulate to their new life without alcohol and become physically and emotionally stable enough in their sobriety to accept and work positively with the new energy source they will inevitably find.
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